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Vina Titaley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This Education Leadership Portfolio (ELP) documents my efforts to enhance the transition experiences of international students at the University of Delaware by optimizing orientation programming. Orientation programming for international students consists of pre-arrival orientation, upon-arrival orientation, and extended orientation, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, School Orientation, Student Adjustment
Jamie R. Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) focuses on identifying, implementing, and collecting data on the structures of a new residency program at the University of Delaware. This portfolio is unique because I did not make improvements to a program that was already in place. Rather, this ELP documents some of the work I participated in which…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Teacher Education, Program Improvement, Communities of Practice
Voltz, Eileen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Preparing students to be successful in their high school begins with their freshmen orientation program. Incoming Charter School of Wilmington (CSW) freshmen struggle to adjust to the demands of the curricula, learn the various technologies, establish new social relationships and navigate around their new school building. The CSW Freshmen…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Student Adjustment, High School Freshmen, Charter Schools
Drake, Graham; Wash, Kate – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2020
New data and analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality finds significant progress on the science of reading instruction in teacher preparation. For the first time since NCTQ began publishing program ratings in its 2013 Teacher Prep Review, the number of programs in the nation to embrace reading science has crossed the halfway mark,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Reading Instruction, Program Evaluation, Undergraduate Study
McCrae, April M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Gender inequality is a persistent issue in secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs in the United States. According to section 113(b)(2)(A)(III)(vi) of the Carl D. Perkins act, schools receiving federal funds in support of career and technical education are required to report "student participation in, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Improvement, Educational Improvement, Equal Education
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2014
By 2012, all of the states in this study had started implementing new or revised teacher and leader evaluation systems. There are many and varying updates to these systems, and some of them have been made to meet conditions for a state's federal "Race to the Top" (RTT) grant. Other updates have been made to meet conditions for a state's…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, Teacher Evaluation
McCormick, William J. – 1976
A program was proposed and initiated to involve teachers and administrators of the Smyrna (Delaware) School District in a thorough assessment of their reading programs. Using "Standards of Excellence for Reading in Delaware" and its accompanying checklist as the assessment instrument, committees in each building met with members of the…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Practicums, Program Development
Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
A project was conducted to recommend the acquisition and installation of state-of-the-art computer laboratories, software, and teacher training that will better prepare students in Delaware for employment in information processing occupations. Four major activities were undertaken: (1) a survey of 1,426 Delaware office workers to determine the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Software, Data Processing Occupations, Employer Attitudes
Watson, John S. – 1974
Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are the focus of this inventory of ESEA Title III projects for the State of Delaware, fiscal year 1974. Sixteen operating projects are described in Part I…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is one of a series of reports which describe the experiences of six state agencies that are developing systems to affect the development and implementation of policy in the federal/state program for vocational rehabilitation. The state programs are developing model program evaluation/management information support units. This second…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007
The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This Delaware edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state policies…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Yearbooks
Matz, William A. – 1990
This report describes the summer occupational/vocational programs held in each of three vocational school districts and it compiles activities in the regular school districts in Delaware for fiscal year 1991. The three vocational-technical school district programs profiled are those of Kent County, Sussex County, and New Castle County. For each…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs
Delaware State Board of Education, Wilmington. – 1964
THE FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH IN THE DELAWARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SUMMARIZED CONCERNING THE NUMBERS AND AGES OF EMOTIONALLY AND SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CHILDREN, LOCAL CLINICS, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND OTHER REFERRAL AND TREATMENT FACILITIES, TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, PARENT PROBLEMS, AND WAYS IN WHICH OTHER COMMUNITIES MEET THE…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Needs, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education